The Women of Congo
May 10, 2009 7:41 AM Subscribe
Listen, can you hear them--they're the Women of Congo... and they need your help.
Help them to stop this dehumanization that they are undergoing, by either raising money for them, or spreading the word of this atrocity and helping them rebuild their lives. Or you could take part in a Sponsorship Run that's being organized in your city or State, and help the Women of Congo...
Help them to stop this dehumanization that they are undergoing, by either raising money for them, or spreading the word of this atrocity and helping them rebuild their lives. Or you could take part in a Sponsorship Run that's being organized in your city or State, and help the Women of Congo...
This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a tragedy. that does not mean that this makes a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn
Why not stop using your cell phone or computer instead?
The Congo's blood metals
Coltan, Gorillas and cellphones
Congo's riches fuel its war
posted by KokuRyu at 10:30 AM on May 10, 2009
The Congo's blood metals
Coltan, Gorillas and cellphones
Congo's riches fuel its war
posted by KokuRyu at 10:30 AM on May 10, 2009
Why not stop using your cell phone or computer instead?
Who's going to know if you do? The only way this will have even the slightest effect is if you never buy another one. You've already bought the one you have. The links suggest putting pressure on manufacturers to use materials certified to be from acceptable sources. This seems more likely to have an effect. Not using your computer won't stop them being made, it'll just make it a lot less likely that you'll learn about things like this in the first place.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:29 AM on May 10, 2009
Who's going to know if you do? The only way this will have even the slightest effect is if you never buy another one. You've already bought the one you have. The links suggest putting pressure on manufacturers to use materials certified to be from acceptable sources. This seems more likely to have an effect. Not using your computer won't stop them being made, it'll just make it a lot less likely that you'll learn about things like this in the first place.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:29 AM on May 10, 2009
Why not stop using your cell phone or computer instead?
Whereby you further depress the global economy in general, shockwaves of which ripple all the way up The Congo River to Stanley Falls.
I wish that this was the sort of thing we'd really created the UN for, instead of the toothless & clueless clump of a dozen or two blue helmets it seems to have become.
like I can afford another computer, anyway.
posted by Devils Rancher at 12:11 PM on May 10, 2009
Whereby you further depress the global economy in general, shockwaves of which ripple all the way up The Congo River to Stanley Falls.
I wish that this was the sort of thing we'd really created the UN for, instead of the toothless & clueless clump of a dozen or two blue helmets it seems to have become.
like I can afford another computer, anyway.
posted by Devils Rancher at 12:11 PM on May 10, 2009
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